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Continue reading →: Day 30 – at Rovaniemi
Day 30 – at Rovaniemi A cloudless cool morning good for the van’s health as well as mine, in that it can store up some solar energy. The weather the area has been having has meant many mosquitoes already have died off, according to a German hiker I was talking…
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Continue reading →: Day 29 – to Rovaniemi
Day 29 – to Rovaniemi The mystery of the red truck was solved for me this morning. I posted a photograph of it a couple of days ago, doubting its economy and dreading its emissions. It arrived here with a German guy driving four years ago, and hasn’t moved since.…
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Continue reading →: Day 28 – at RörbäcksDay 28 – at Rörbäcks Rain days require careful planning, as regards to movement around the van that is. It was torrential all day today. Thunder mixed in. If it wasn’t for the dog I probably would have stayed in. But his expression in this photograph summarises much.. So we…
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Continue reading →: Day 27 – at RörbäcksDay 27 – Saturday 20 August – at Rörbäcks Back in April, I spent a memorable couple of night in the van on the Falzarego Pass. Memorable because it snowed heavily shortly after I arrived, and I was in effect, trapped there for a couple of days and nights, or…
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Continue reading →: Day 26 – at RörbäcksDay 26 – at Rörbäcks Or day five in my mini Beaches of Bothnia tour, and a misty one at that, still and grey. There’s a human-made rocky causeway out to a small island just close to us, so this morning we clambered over that, the dog considerably more gracefully…
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Continue reading →: Day 25 – to Rörbäcks
Day 25 – to Rörbäcks On a bright and fine early autumn morning I investigated the peninsula of coastline stuck out into the Gulf of Bothnia where I had camped. For the purposes of trade with Finland, in the early part of the 1900s several inland harbours were built with…
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Continue reading →: Day 24 – to Renholmen
Day 24 – to Renholmen I mentioned yesterday that the overnight temperature would stay relatively high, and it was more than expected, up at 21C, conditions ideal for mosquitos, and a few had managed to overcome my defences and get into the van. They took some locating and eliminating. That…
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Continue reading →: Day 23 – to Järnäsklubb
Day 23 – to Järnäsklubb It was another tremendous camp location, they really aren’t hard to find here. These are warm days for late summer up here 65 degrees latitude, up to 24C today, and with being by the sea, warm nights also, dropping only to about 17C. The long…
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Continue reading →: Day 22 – to Balesudden Nature Reserve
Day 22 – to Balesudden Nature Reserve A coastal mist hung around for most of the morning. After coffee and a chat with neighbour Bob I drove the 25 kilometres back to the shoreline through the village of Bäck to the parking area for Balesudden Nature Reserve. Almost all the…
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Continue reading →: Day 21 – at Kornsjösjön lakeDay 21 – at Kornsjösjön lake I hadn’t quite realised yesterday what a good site I was in. Add to that a Sunday morning feeling of laziness and I felt justified in my decision to stay put. A Dutch guy was my only neighbour, travelling in his tiny Citroen car,…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
